Dover Digital Design Source 2

Filled with the finest ornamental lettering from Dover's immense design archive, this decorative resource also doubles as a remarkable visual exploration of the art of typography. Over 3,100 black-and-white images encompass complete alphabets as well as intricate initials in the most popular styles: Celtic, Art Nouveau, Gothic, Scroll, and more.

These distinctive engravings are drawn from a rare 1818 volume, Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique des Trois Règnes de la Nature, a modified version of the illustrated encyclopedia by Diderot and d'Alembert. The CD includes every image from the book, which features 494 black-and-white illustrations — crabs, lobsters, bees, beetles, spiders, and other creatures.

Drawn from classic volumes, this design treasury abounds in gargoyles and other mythic beasts, floral designs, stained glass patterns, and other elaborate decorative elements from the medieval churches of Europe. 537 images.

Brimming with boisterous businessmen, cavorting animals, and other whimsical characters, these 670 black-and-white line illustrations are drawn from the best of 19th-century American advertising art. Each frame-like clip can be easily customized.

Based on popular motifs of ancient Greece and Rome, Neo-Classical design dominated European architecture and decorative styles from the late 1700s onward. This collection of elegant clip art features scenes from mythological, historical, and biblical sources as well as vines and leaves, floral elements, real and legendary beasts, and geometric patterns. 823 images.

Floral motifs, pastoral scenes, picturesque views — this elegant treasury is filled with approximately 120 black-and-white frames from authentic 19th-century sources including Moore's Irish Melodies and Chants et chansons populaires de la France. Crisp and convenient, the images will add antique flair to invitations, advertisements, decoupages, and many more design projects.

By the time the phrase "graphic design" first appeared in print in 1922, design professionals in America had already created a discipline combining visual art with mass communication. In this book, Ellen Mazur Thomson examines for the first time the early development of the graphic design profession. It has been thought that graphic design emerged as a profession only when European modernism arrived in America in the 1930s, yet Thomson shows that the practice of graphic design began much earlier. Shortly after the Civil War, when the mechanization of printing and reproduction technology transformed mass communication, new design practices emerged. Thomson investigates the development of these practices from 1870 to 1920, a time when designers came to recognize common interests and create for themselves a professional identity. What did the earliest designers do, and how did they learn to do it? What did they call themselves? How did they organize them-selves and their work? Drawing on an array of original period documents, the author explores design activities in the printing, type founding, advertising, and publishing industries, setting the early history of graphic design in the context of American social history.